Eugene Grasset's plant patterns (1896)

Eugène Grasset (1845-1917) was a Swiss-born artist who was influential in the early Art Nouveau movement — designing everything from furniture and ceramics to typefaces and postage stamps . (He's best known for his posters , which defined the look of fin-de-siècle French graphic design.)

In 1896, he and a group of his students published La plante et ses applications ornementales ( Plants and Their Ornamental Applications ), a work of theory on the integration of natural elements into design patterns. For each of 24 different plants, Grasset created a series of illustrations showing them from the most naturalistic to the most abstract, all done in precise lithographs printed by his students. They're lovely.

This embedding is based on 30 patterns from La plante et ses applications ornementales — cooked for a total of 300 steps on base SD 1.5: 16 vectors per token, a 0.004 learning rate, a batch size of 6, and 5 gradient steps. It can make some quite lovely patterns; with the right weights, you can also push them in a more naturalistic or abstract direction.